Emberá indigenous minor hit by a taxi driver in the Seventh race in Bogotá is out of danger

Last Wednesday, an indigenous woman with her two children, who were traveling through the Seventh race in the vicinity of the Enrique Olaya Herrera National Park, were run over by a taxi driver who, due to these events, was about to be lynched by members of the Emberá community who have been occupying that space for seven months.

After this incident, the vehicle was stopped by Embera indigenous people, who tried to lynch the driver because of the events that occurred, in a case similar to the one that occurred months ago with the driver Hildebrando Rivera, who died from beatings caused by a mob after he accidentally ran over a woman and her daughter.

The police commander of the town of Santa Fe, Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Armando Castiblanco González, reported that the taxi driver has already been handed over to the judicial authorities and that the injured minor is out of danger. In addition, he clarified that there were no minor arms involved in the accident.

“A minor under the age of 16, who goes through the Seventh Race without taking due precautions, is hit by a taxi vehicle, which is once surrounded by the indigenous lords, there is a quick reaction from the staff of the Government Secretariat and the police officers who are here willing to attend to the stay of the indigenous people in this sector,” Castiblanco told RCN radio.

According to the Personería de Bogotá, the accident occurred when a motorcyclist traveling through the seventh race ran over the minor, who was immediately taken to San Ignacio Hospital for treatment; her state of health is still unknown.

“In the face of the accident of an indigenous girl on the Seventh Race at the height of the National Park, our guardians of the #GAEPVD verify the health care provided to her at the time to ensure respect for her #DDHH,” she assured the Personería in a trill that was published on their social networks and confirmed that they are continuing in the “follow-up to the accident of the indigenous girl who was transferred to the San Ignacio Hospital”.

For his part, the uniformed man revealed that the taxi driver received protection from the authorities. “The taxi driver is given the respective security, the traffic personnel carry out the procedure and the ambulance takes care of the indigenous minor, it is completely ruled out that there was a minor arm as was initially said in some versions,” explained Castiblanco.

It should be noted that the timely intervention of the police prevented a catastrophe, but it failed to contain the blockade that the seventh race suffered in both directions for about three hours, which affected the mobility of this sector of downtown Bogotá.

Likewise, through the intervention of the coexistence managers, as well as the Ministry of Mobility, the capital's artery was unblocked after ten o'clock in the evening. This accident is the third in 2022 since, as well as the death of Hildebrando Rivera, a minor was hit in February by another driver.

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